Number ONE Enemy of the State

There is immense confusion about the nature of the State. There is even more bewilderment about what constitutes a patriot. Any discussion in the civic realm begins with a cultural viewpoint. An attitude toward the proper role of the individual’s relationship with government based upon one’s value system and interpretation of civil order is natural. One man’s patriot is another man’s traitor. Where do you stand on the sentiments behind the penning of the below ideas? Quiz yourself and see if you can figure out the name of the author.

The quotes assembled in this essay illustrate that government officials and agencies would put the critic on a terrorist watch list. Read each and compare if the thought behind the passage agrees with your value system or if the attitude is too extreme for mainstream politics in today’s America. If left up to the national security apparatus, the author would be on a wanted poster, labeled as the Number One Enemy of the State.

Imagine the government’s response for advocating a society that promotes Liberty. Tolerating grievous radical expressions like these examples is dangerous. Consider the outlooks.

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

“It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.”

“It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.”

Many people complain about government but most consent to the dictates of authority as a required acceptance of citizen obedience. How many times have you heard the viewpoint it is your duty to act in compliance with the law as the price of a civilized society? The vast majority obeys whatever regulation or edict comes their way. This fact keeps the system functioning. The standards set forth for your submission often evolve, but people learn to adjust.

Pushing the envelope of the acceptance quotient varies in intensity, but seldom does government retreat. The state is the final judge of acceptability, because force is the ultimate weapon of threat for disobedience. Ruling regents restrain, ignore or discard eternal indivisible rights if a conflict exists with the interests of the state. Freedom can be a very treacherous opponent for a municipal establishment.

You can just hear the opposition to the next series of quotes. The idea that natural law permits all legitimate authority is downright radical and inhibits the living Constitution.

“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”

“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

Governments pursue greater influence and range of regulating behavior. As the state grows the tentacles of reach expands. Challenging this trend risks acceptance and imposes penalties. Torturing the meaning of fairness, the state uses all the muscle of intimidation and brute coercion, to justify public acceptance of the methods used to gain conformity.

Testing the limits of government forbearance is an act of courage that most shy away from undertaking. Open confrontation is chastised as behavior of a delinquent subject. Confiscation of individual wealth for the greater good champions the supreme sacrifice that transforms into the shared cost of being part of the great government governance.

Conferring legitimacy and respect for government programs and policies is the criterion of a loyal national. Deviating from symbolic recognition and deference must signify that the person is hostile to the good works of public sector. Advocates that express dissent are tabbed as agitators and threats, calculated to challenge the survival of the state.

The role of government amplifies as the drumbeat of the welfare clause vibrates to the inner soul of the nation. This group of citations adds fuel to the fire that the writer is an enemy of the state.

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

Resistance to government abusive authority qualifies the opponents of the regime as outlaws. Envision claiming that government can become a tyrant and implying that revolt is justified. Advocating acts of rebellion and equating an ethical mandate surely qualifies the essayist as a foe of the government.

Self-defense and individual autonomy disturbs the state. The all-encompassing scope of government involvements and intrusions claim that such practices, warranted for the public good, are valid. Challenging this omniscient authority qualifies one as an antagonist of the sovereign master.

Disputing the entrenched submission to the state as an instrument of rule is perilous to the magistrates. Punitive prosecution of indignant protestors must be a prime directive of the state. Granting access to the corridors of power and rule to the generator of the next thoughts is unthinkable. Allowing these words to influence the population is dangerous. Such ideas desecrate the purity of government genuineness.

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.”

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

“When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”

By now, you should have a good idea who wrote all these quotations. Many complacent Americans are uncomfortable with the spirit and intent of this wisdom. The ageless insights apply as succinctly as when they were first uttered. These words disturb many cowardly peons, who abdicate their self-dignity by willingly pronouncing their allegiance for the state, especially when the conduct based upon coercion and dependency is the norm.

The state is the enemy, when authorities assault individual liberty and embrace collectivism. The sage of these quotes would be demonized as a rebel and unelectable in today’s “PC” environment. Secure in his place is history, the current political class often rejected the origins and truth in the ideas.

The Democratic Party has strayed a very long way from their anti-federalists beginnings. The most avid voices of condemnation and dismissal in the message of the verses shout out for an all controlling and omnipresent government. Therefore, the call for limited government is a primary reason to label followers of the intrepid author as enemies of the state. In case you have not figure out the authorship yet, review the Solitary Purdah essay and discover the answer.

America is in deep trouble because the country has lost its way and people scorn their heritage. Instead of cherishing sound principles and universal values, the population has embarked on a self-destructive rush for fallacious gratification. In order to continue the decadent orgy of debt and entitlements, dependants swear fidelity to the state, deny their natural birthrights, and avoid intrinsic responsibilities. Will you adopt the proud title – Enemy of the State? On the other hand, will you continue to aid and abet the downfall of the nation and keep saluting a despotic dictatorship?

@Evie, HAHAHA Don’t live in the Mississippi delta, near rivers and build on high ground! simple and ancient technology. Solar storms are only consequential to digital communications, cell phones and TV transmissions so who cares. Just my thoughts and no offense meant.

None taken but, if you have not already read it, read the book “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen. It is a most interesting and terrifying book on this very subject. Yes, it is a work of fiction but it is thoroughly researched and grounded in reality. The gist of the story is that modern civilization depends completely upon the “digital communications” that you disparage. Every bit of our food, water, and medical supplies, sewerage pumping and treatment, all hospitals, all transportation, air, highway, and sea traffic control and navigation, industrial production, electrical grid supply and control, and virtually everything else of any consequence whatever depends upon the computers that control, route, monitor, correct, and repair our fragile but very powerful delivery systems. One second after a massive solar storm hits the Earth, civilization loses its technology and is transported from today back in time to about 1820. Massive and devastating social events occur shortly thereafter, particularly to those who require specific medications that cease to be available.

A few people live “off the grid” these days and that is terrific. I admire their independence and courage. But sooner or later, they will have need of medicine, medical care, transportation, a critical mechanical part, say for a pump or other important machine that supports their life, or something else that modern society provides relatively quickly and cheaply but that is not supported by the primitive technology of the past. Without these things, life soon returns to its former description of “nasty, brutish, and short”.

@Ed_B, Right you are about the digital communications and everything else digital though I don’t mean to disparage it, just acknowledge the vulnerability of it and possibility of total control of it by unsavory governments. If these types of scenarios occur I pity those caught in big cities and YES, if they happen, life will indeed become nasty, brutish and in many cases, short hence so many White people arming up.

Hammerun

Irrespective of what happens with our country, our economy, are rights and freedoms, those that are approaching our futures with eyes wide open and preparing for anything to what ever extent, are going to be in all likelihood, self made survivors. Those that don’t… will be nothing more than a lone wondering calf looking for a government tit. And subject to its abuses and you will be forced to comply to its whims so you and your family can eat. And you will comply! Of you refuse to see this coming now today and refuse to prepare, you already are weak and are ripe and willing to comply. God pity ya, we won’t!
Just look down through all of the posts below. The myriad of offensive subjects that are posted, if only a portion of them come out and are passed, we get pushed a little closer to a socialistic republic. Who in the hell wants to live under that? I don’t seriously believe that this government will be allowed to fail, but the dollar, no doubt. You had better be thinking of a replacement right now! Food, you had better have a stockpile and contingency for the future. The food chain here is a fragile system. Medical care, you had better know something more than, how to apply a Band-aid. Back up med supplies, any and all, you will need them. Protection, you will need it and lots of it. (Depending on where you live, but none of us will be safe) If the UN and the government pass some happy anti get all of the guns horseshit, my friend that’s the time to push it all to the center of the table and go all in. We all know what is going to happen after that. And we know why that happens. The implied and suggested “EUTOPIA” that will follow will be nothing more than hollow lies.

Evie

You can prepare but for a short time. What you have would be confinscated by the elite. Bigger things are coming. Not just floods typical of an area but volcanos,asteroids,meteorites some kind of fite.lack of pc devices will be the least of the problem. They cannot stop economic collapse only delay it.

Arizona

EVIE,nothing can stop NIBIRU,and yes its coming ,denial is not a river in egypt.find a place under ground, for when it comes and then leave to where your supplies are hidden and prepare to live in the 1890’s be sure to have several mountain ranges between you and the coast!7,000-8000ft would be nice and remember a bottle of breathing OXYGEN with you at all times,at least 2 hours worth!!Figure on walking to your hideout where your supplies are,if you keep your eyes open you’ll see the red dust collecting on car windshields first red dust 8-12 hrs,large amounts of red dust minutes to maybe a couple of hours before the pole shift begins! you must be under ground during the shift! the wind will be over 400mph.

Arizona

yea,we know what to expect,if they want the guns,they’ll use gas,poison,visris and what ever they have in there trick bag,plus soldiers,police,and any traitors they can get to help them.we went to the boy scout camp in cimmeron new mexico cause we heard they were training them to go door to door to take the guns and sure enough,DHS was there training them in house to house combat,with real mp5 machine guns 40cal. the girl scouts were there to,couldn’t believe it,little NAZI’S all of them, to bad to, this ain’t going to be a video game and these kids don’t realize it.